Purpose

The purpose of this paper is to examine the literature to determine how academic librarians are measuring their libraries' institutional level impact on student success as measured by grade point average, a metric commonly used in American education. This paper highlights a range of methods, outcomes and challenges in an initial scoping study.

Design/methodology/approach

The methodology centered on a literature review of measuring the impact of academic libraries on student success as quantified by grade point average (GPA) from 2010 to present. Searches in ProQuest, EBSCO and Google Scholar were used to identify the relevant literature. Keywords searched in databases included various combinations of academic impact, student success, learning outcomes, library and higher education.

Findings

The analysis of 15 papers shows that academic librarians have demonstrated a small, nonnegligible positive correlation of library usage on GPA. The results of studies have highlighted that correlation does not prove the cause. Concerns and limitations of studies included using the GPA as a measurement of student success, differences between GPAs in subject areas, timeframes used, sample size collected, student privacy and the meanings of the results.

Research limitations/implications

This study is limited to articles published in English measuring student success as quantified by GPA and focuses heavily on American sources.

Originality/value

The research can guide librarians through known challenges and highlight successful designs and study methods used by other academic librarians to measure the impact of the library on student success.

中文翻译：

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高校图书馆对平均成绩（GPA）的影响：回顾

目的

本文的目的是研究文献，以确定高校图书馆员如何通过平均成绩（美国教育中常用的一种指标）来衡量其图书馆制度对学生成功的影响。本文重点介绍了初始范围研究中的各种方法，结果和挑战。

设计/方法/方法

该方法以文献综述为中心，该文献以2010年至今的平均绩点（GPA）来衡量衡量高校图书馆对学生成功的影响。使用ProQuest，EBSCO和Google Scholar中的搜索来识别相关文献。在数据库中搜索的关键词包括学术影响力，学生成功，学习成果，图书馆和高等教育的各种组合。

发现

对15篇论文的分析表明，大学图书馆员对GPA的图书馆使用表现出很小的，不可忽略的正相关性。研究结果强调，相关性不能证明原因。研究的关注点和局限性包括使用GPA衡量学生的成绩，学科领域的GPA之间的差异，使用的时间范围，收集的样本量，学生的隐私以及结果的含义。

研究局限/意义

这项研究仅限于用英语发表的衡量学生成功率的文章（由GPA量化），并且重点关注美国资源。

创意/价值

该研究可以指导图书馆员克服已知的挑战，并突出其他图书馆员使用的成功设计和研究方法来衡量图书馆对学生成功的影响。